Founded in 2018, Phoenix Athens Gallery and Residency is designed to demonstrate that art can transform individuals and societies. With its residency program, production facilities and two gallery spaces, Phoenix Athens has hosted over 70 artists in residence, and exhibited over 100 creative practitioners from Greece and abroad. A neighbourhood friendly, artist-run space, it continues to maintain connections between Athenians and the international creative community
In addition to the exhibitions and residency program, Activities at Phoenix Athens offers public workshops, performances and events by visiting local and international artists.
At Phoenix Athens, we focus on inclusion, social justice and ecology however we also remain open to and encourage experimentation and research.
Creative collaborations to exhibit and participate are reviewed on a rolling basis. For information about any of these, or hiring an exhibition space, please refer to our dedicated Gallery Page or send us an email.
THE NOTES, THE TAINTED & THE OTHER
Jonas Liveröd
DATES: 12 - 22 April 2024 • Mon-Fri 12 - 6
Sat-Sun by appointment
HAPPENING IN APRIL
With The Notes, The Tainted & The Other Liveröd returns to his roots in drawing, mind-mapping and classical sculpture, exploring the damaged artefacts of Athens’ classical heritage. The work is marked by the artist’s fascination with the captivating qualities of friction and imperfection of artefacts and phenomena. During his residency at Phoenix Athens, Liveröd delved into the city's classical heritage, connecting the glitches of the sculptural universe with his associative mode of working. The exhibition, created on site over the weeks of his residency uses drawings and watercolours to form the spine of a mind-map that sprawls out in notes, associative images, text and ephemera across the gallery walls. With echoes of the encyclopaedic form of his recently published book: Grand Assembly, the installation featuresmerges sculptural phenomena with fascinating Athenian flaws to form a dynamic interplay between system and associative connections.
More Events in April
Opening Thursday April 18:
Chris Hawtin: The Last Pageant
Phoenix Athens proudly presents The Last Pageant featuring new work by Chris Hawtin. Through this series of paintings, prints and models, we see Hawtin turning his focus towards portraiture. Imbued with a sense of disjunction, pathos and nostalgia, they resemble history paintings projected back from the far future, The work in this exhibition is at once traditional and futuristic,
Chris Hawtin’s work invites us to consider the human experiences of time, different territorial spaces (the body, landscape, painting, sculpture) and what they mean to us in the age of technological acceleration.
Private View: Thursday April 18 19:00 - 23:00
Exhibition Dates: 19 April - 13 May 2024 • Mon-Fri 12 - 18:00
Sat-Sun by appointment (6970516245)
Opening Friday April 26
Peter Nikoltsos: Spartacae
Spartacae.
Nikoltsos experiments with complex shades and tones of color interspersed with dark slashes, the latter resembling crosses from the tragic closing chapter of the Spartacist gladiator-led slave rebellion of 73 B.C.E. The vertical and horizontal strokes of color evoke symbolic and historical demarcations: A place where East meets West, where the mundane and the esoteric coincide within the unregulated geography of earthly existence.For Nikoltsos, the cross symbolises a personal journey as a Greek-American and serves as an ongoing tribute to the rebellion of people in modern society against slavery and oppression.
Spartacae Opens April 26 and continues through May 20 2024
SPRING RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2024
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